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Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Wheat rava peas biriyani

Today we have to post a recipe starting with W and I am depending on english words. I had two choices for W - either start the recipe name with Whole or start with Wheat. I chose the later. As I have said in my earlier posts, wheat rava is largely used in kerala these days. It is promoted as a healthy food mainly to reduce diabetes. I wanted to try something different. So I tried a biriyani.

I have only replaced rice with wheat rava. I tried my best to make it malabar style. The wheat rava biriyani was excellent!! I am in love with it. I added only peas as the main vegetable - only peas was available at home at that time. But we can add all types of vegetables that are generally added for vegetable biriyani/pulav. Do try this biriyani. I served this with salad and juice. It was so refreshing in this summer.

Ingredients:

Wheat rava - 2 cups

Peas - 1/2 cup

Shallots - 100 grams (peeled)

Tomato - 2 (finely chopped)

Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp

Coriander powder - 1 tbsp

Water - 4 cups

Ghee / nei - 3 tbsp

Curd - 1 tbsp

Green chillies - 4

Salt - to taste

Dry masala:

Cinnamon / patta - 2 1" piece

Cardamom / elakka- 4

Cloves / lavangam- 8

Bay leaf / karuvapatta ila- 1

Saunf / Perunjeeragam - 1 tsp

Maze / jathi pathri - few strands

Peppercorns / kurumilagu - 1 tsp

To garnish:

Ghee / nei - 1 tbsp

Cashew nuts / andiparuppu - 1 tbsp

Raisins / munthiri - 1 tbsp

Coriander leaves - few

Mint leaves - few

Method:

Grind the shallots, green chillies, ginger-garlic into a smooth paste.

In a kadai, add 1 tbsp of ghee. Fry the cashews and raisins until they turn brown. Drain and keep it aside.

Add another 3 tbsp ghee. Add all the dry masalas and fry for a minute.

Now add the onion-garlic paste. Fry until the raw smell goes away and the paste turns light brown.

Now add finely chopped tomatoes and peas. Keep frying them until the tomatoes turn mushy and you can see oil oozing out of them.

Add the coriander powder, salt and curd. Mix well and cook for another 2 minutes.

Now add 4 cups of water. Let the water boil. Check for salt.

Once the water is boiled add the wheat rava and mix well. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.